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What Drives Third World City Growth
By (Author) Allen C. Kelley
By (author) Nancy Burley
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Regional / urban economics
338.91091724
Hardback
294
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
567g
The book shows that earlier studies exaggerated the effects of rural land scarcity, foreign capital inflows, and population growth on Third World urbanization. More critical were imbalances of productivity advance across sectors and terms of trade between primary products and manufactures. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Librar